# PA Man Beheads Govt. Emp. Father, Posts Video Online, Calls For "Revolution" Against Biden **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 31, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894 "2024-01-31T05:04:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/141 "2024-02-02T02:40:44Z")
> [@Briny\_Deep](#): > > There’s a lot of people in this strange country who would absolutely kill any federal employee if they thought they could get away with it, and unfortunately they’re not all certifiable. One nutjob does not a political movement make, but his action seems pretty symbolic of some of the more deranged right-wingers we deal with in the USA, of whom there are many millions. How many do you mean by “a lot”? Looking at your 1st & last sentences … surely you don’t mean there are millions of U.S. citizens who would happily murder any government employees? Even their own mailman? > [@Briny\_Deep](#): > > why the overwhelming reaction here is light humor. Gallows humor is a common response to dark events. Besides, there haven’t been any recent developments posted, so we started talking about other stuff. Actually, looking back, one hijack directly led to another. The admittedly odd-sounding clunker of a housing price detail in the original report led to a general discussion about housing prices in the area … and, broadly speaking, Canada is “in the area” of where the crime happened. (Helluva lot closer than Southern California.) So that led to the topic of how big Canada is, vs the area of the U.S. and from there … yeah. Conversational drift occurred. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/142 "2024-02-02T02:41:05Z")
I wasn’t able to read the NYTimes article on kids and globes these days, but I just asked my 9- and 7-year-old whether they have a globe in their class and both answered yes, and both go to different schools (one public, one Catholic.) ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/143 "2024-02-02T02:45:36Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > The admittedly odd-sounding clunker of a housing price detail in the original report Speaking of which, I keep meaning to say, it’s probably just because they get paid by the word. So they dredge up any details they can and submit them in hopes of increasing the payout. The original probably had even more useless dreck that the editor nixed. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/144 "2024-02-02T02:54:39Z")
Wow. Even the Daily Mail thought that detail was extraneous, as it’s no longer on the current version of the story if you use the OP’s link. It looks like it was edited out sometime yesterday early in the morning, EST, according to the Wayback Machine. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/145 "2024-02-02T03:20:39Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Speaking of which, I keep meaning to say, it’s probably just because they get paid by the word. So they dredge up any details they can and submit them in hopes of increasing the payout. I read a reminiscence by a writer back in the pulp fiction days. His heroes always seemed to dispatch the baddie with the last round in his revolver. “I was paid three-cents a word. No way in hell I’m going to let him die with fifteen-cents worth of unexpended ammunition.” ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/146 "2024-02-02T03:30:53Z")
> [@Briny\_Deep](#): > > really am puzzled as to why the overwhelming reaction here is light humor. Whistling past the graveyard? ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/147 "2024-02-02T03:36:08Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > How many do you mean by “a lot”? Looking at your 1st & last sentences … surely you don’t mean there are millions of U.S. citizens who would happily murder any government employees? Even their own mailman? I dunno. Would millions of people kill their mailman? God, I hope not. Are millions of right-wingers totally deranged? I give you: Trump’s fervent base, the ones who adore him. (How many is that? Say, just 2% of his voters?) Has this movement inspired murder? Absolutely I believe that, including our decapitator here. Yeah he’s extremely ill, but it does sound like he was motivated by some right-wing talking points about the Deep State and whatever, in addition to of course the voices in his head. It’s impossible to know why a mentally ill person did a mentally ill thing, but there’s some real and intense right-wing hatred of federal government employees. I’m scared to death of it; people are whipped up by you-know-who and some of them are going to act on that. This isn’t that new but it’s ratcheting up. Anyway (not that you should care) I’m not actually all het up about this thread and didn’t intend to wade in, but when the OP found it going the way it is, had to express some solidarity there. It took me off guard. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/148 "2024-02-02T03:38:21Z")
I’m a parent. I was not and am not abusive. My kids are not violent or bad people, nor have they committed any crimes. However, a couple of them do things that while not criminal are a bit not cool. I did not raise them that way. I see victim blaming in your post. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/149 "2024-02-02T04:48:13Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Somebody was going to do it. Who? Who would do such a thing, the inquisitor asks. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/150 "2024-02-02T04:51:59Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I wasn’t expecting a hijack about custom globes. Are we done with that now? Should we not bother with the addendum to the thread title? (“Beheadings and schizophrenia, but now with added globes!”) . > [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > You bought a new one recently? May I ask how big? Nothing less than 1:1 scale for our house! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/151 "2024-02-02T06:07:43Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > “What is the difference between a frog and a toad”. I knew the answer, and could write it in a few simple paragraphs that would fit perfectly in the column. I assume it has to do with what happens when each of them is struck by lightning. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/152 "2024-02-02T06:18:00Z")
It is all about what happens when you kiss them. Frogs could, potentially, turn into a prince, which is mostly a good thing (I guess, depending on your sexual orientation. I’m not sure I personally want a prince but I do know a few singles who might) Toads could, potentially, give you a [wild trip](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_toad) into unknown territories ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/153 "2024-02-02T10:15:02Z")
Both, I think. Violence against the Federal government and other “enemies” is baked into the Right’s worldview, and QAnon conspiracy theories are irrational enough that anyone buying into them is already irrational. And when you _tell_ irrational people they should be violent, some of them _will_ be; classic stochastic terrorism. Behavior like this is the _intended result_ of the rhetoric they’ve been pushing for decades, now. They want violence, murder, terror; those have always been core goals of the Right for as long as the concept of “the Right” has existed. “The cruelty is the point”, including when it’s patricide. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/154 "2024-02-02T11:15:10Z")
The daily mail is _obsessed_ with house prices. Always has been. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/155 "2024-02-02T12:51:00Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > > [@BobLibDem](#): > > > > To kill a person is sick, to behead the victim whether alive or dead is even sicker, > > I’m curious about this logic. Why is beheading any sicker than shooting with a gun? A guillotine seems to be a pretty humane form of execution, as such things go. Not that I think that was the instrument in this case, but it is an example of beheading. I’d be less creeped out if it was a guillotine. But it wasn’t, he had to take a saw or machete and hack away at his father’s neck. It takes time, up close and personal, to see the gradual severing of a head. Who among us could do it to a dog? Yet this guy did it to his own parent. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/156 "2024-02-02T13:53:45Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Somehow I thought it was a much larger difference. Besides the aforementioned Alaska, a lifetime of exposure to Mercator projection maps is to blame. Oops – ninja’d – big-time! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/157 "2024-02-02T14:03:59Z")
(re: Magic Planet hi-tech globe). My workplace – a university’s Dept. of Geography and Environmental Science – will soon get a new building. When consulting with the architects, we considered including this Magic Planet globe in the lobby. We decided (for now) it wasn’t worth the cost. Instead, we have the GEOCHRON wall display, from a company that, in the 1970s, made a clever mechanically-driven wall map that showed where it’s light and dark at any time of day or year (watch the shadow line go vertical around the time of the equinoxes!). ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/158 "2024-02-02T14:06:34Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Nothing less than 1:1 scale for our house! I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/159 "2024-02-02T14:42:39Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > > > A 39” globe doesn’t fit through standard classroom doors. > > Well, you just have to turn it on its side to get through the door. Duh. You win the derailment, and have made the finals for winning the full thread. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/160 "2024-02-02T15:36:42Z")
That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894.md?page=9)